Construction Work
Josée Dubeau / Lorraine Gilbert / Jinny Yu
- Publisher
- Carleton University Art Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2010
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780770905378
- Publish Date
- Feb 2010
- List Price
- $25.00
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About the authors
Petra Halkes is an independent art writer, curator, teacher and artist who lives in Ottawa. Her book, Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and the Subject of Nature, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2006.
Diana Nemiroff is a Canadian curator and art historian in the field of contemporary art. She holds an MA in art history from Concordia University where she was awarded the Alfred E. Pinsky Medal for the highest-ranking graduating student in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2012, she was the recipient of a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Nemiroff has held positions as director of Carleton University Art Gallery, senior curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and also held assistant and associate curator positions with the Gallery. She has numerous exhibitions to her credit, including the ground-breaking Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (1992), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (co-curated with Robert Houle and Charlotte Townsend-Gault), which was the National Gallery's first major exhibition featuring the accomplishments of a new generation of Aboriginal artists; Crossings / Traversées (1998), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Melvin Charney and Kzrysztof Wodiczko (1986) for the 42nd Venice Biennale.
